Chapter 3

An Old Friend

Celestia and Red both sat in the library and talked about their lives after Red left Celestia. The other ponies and spike simply sat in the corner of the library, except Twilight. She was going mad at the amount of books that were in the library. She was loosing control at the mercy of the scrolls, parchments, books, and pretty much anything else that had to do with words. She called out in sheer joy," These books are phenomenal. The knowledge that is on these pages."

To which Red replied," Take what you want, I have read them all and can recite them word for word." She squealed in excitement and took scroll after scroll and book after book, sliding them into her saddle bag. She was going through when she found a large scroll, wedged between two cases. She used her magic to pull it out and she noticed that it was covered in cobwebs. She blew it off and the dust and decay filled the area behind it. She slowly opened the scroll, in fear that it would fall apart as soon as she did. When she opened the scroll she read," the 3rd century, age of darkness.

The East has gone silent. We fear the king of the eastern plains is going to attempt to take our lands. We do not know what led to this. They are preparing for a battle that may tear this world apart. I am against this act of death, but I can not change the others minds. I have decided to hide from this battle for as long as I can. Being the oldest and the wisest of the group, I hope they will see my reasoning, but this is unlikely. I have seen what the others have made to aid them in this war. Beings called ponies, Dogs, and dragons. If this can't kill us, I do not know what will. There is also a growing fear of a threat from the stars, a being called the Sha-." She was cut off by Red, who tore the scroll out of her hoof with his magic." One shouldn't go snooping around into peoples personal things." He said with a snarl. She put her head down and backed up until she hit the bookcase. Red seemed to snap out of what he was doing and he said," I am sorry, little pony. Here," he grabbed a book off of his farthest shelf," this book is about the first unicorns. I have a feeling that you will enjoy it." She smiled and thanked him meekly. She avoided his apologetic eyes and shuffled around him. He looked away from her and he walked to the end of his library. He walked back into the main hall, were Twilight had gone. She was standing off in the corner with her friends, Celestia was with them aswel. He asked for a last private word with Celestia. She slowly walked over to him. He bent his neck so he was a far down as he could get. then he whispered in her ear," may I leave this place. This is your land now, and I ask your permission." She was very shocked at this. Red was so large, he could have gone out whenever he wanted to. When she had taken power and visited him for the last time that 1000 years ago, he had taken no acknowledgement. This was a very big deal to her. Her teacher asking her permission to do something. She turned and faced his head.

" yes."

" Thank you."

He began to slowly walk towards the entrance to the cave. As the light to the outside had grown brighter, he began to tear up. He had not seen the outdoors in over a millennium. As he finally reached the entrance, he took a deep breathe and exhaled. This sent a large pillar of smoke swirling out of the cave. He ducked his head down beneath the last lip of the cave and he went out. As he stepped into the moonlight, he took another deep breathe. Tasting the warm summer night air again felt almost, right. The other ponies were out behind him as he opened his wings. He stretched them as far as they could. They each were about the length of a regular dragon. He put his wings down and he decided to walk. He walked in the direction of the mountain in which Fluttershy had used the look on the dragon. He opened his wings again and this time he pushed them down with as much strength as he could muster. The initial force of the wind was enough to uproot trees, it blew out a few windows all the way off to Ponyville. After they all recovered form the thunderous boom that had followed the wing blast. Rainbow Dash decided to shoot off after the dragon to see where he went. She couldn't believe what was happening, she was actually struggling to keep up. After she had reached the place where the dragon had gone, he was moving to the top of the mountain. When he had reached the top, he opened his wings in a slight v shape. Then he looked up to the sky and he roared. It was the loudest thing that had ever happened to Rainbow Dash. The deafening cry of strength was enough stop her wings from moving. Then he stopped and he did it again. This time it was louder. It actually shook Rainbow till she was on her knees, and rockslides were occurring on the mountain side. Then he stopped and did it again. This time there were bits of the mountain collapsing. The ground shook as violent as if it was trying to kick her off the edge. He was roaring so loud, he unintentionally released the fire from within him. It lit the night brighter than the day, it sent heat off in all directions for what seemed to be miles. Rainbow was unfortunately looking at the amazing spectacle, and she was blinded for a brief second. She was also sweating from the burst of heat. When she could see again, he was still in the pose that he had been when he roared. But he was looking into a coming storm of in the north. It seemed to be moving but stopped at his cry, but then it moved towards the mountain. That was no storm, it had a purpose. Rainbow looked off to the dragon again to find that he was no longer on his perch. Where could he be. Then she heard his voice behind her," little pony, are you alright?" She was so frightened by this that she screamed a shrill scream that worried the dragon.

" My dear, I wish to not hurt you. I wish to protect you, and all of pony kind." Never believe for a second that I would ever harm you." The voice was soft and warm, like a fathers. She slowly opened first one eye, then the other. He had not moved. She was not in his mouth being devoured. But he was smiling. A sweet and gentle smile that one will trust.

WOW, cant believe I did this in one day. Hmmm this should motivate me to write more. And for all of you who read my other stories. I will get to those soon. I just see so much freedom in writing this story that I feel like I can come here and write if I am getting bad on all others. But thanks for reading and lookout for next chapter.